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I Read a Book about the Comoros and Didn’t Tell You: A Links Round-Up

Happy Friday, friends! I am trying to get back into the regular swing of blogging now that it is the new year, but some of these links are slightly old. Oh well! Maybe you haven’t seen them yet! In which case, lucky you! What to do if you are white and straight and cis and male and not all the stories are about you anymore (Star Wars spoilers included herein). “More as heroines than damsels”: How Disney gave their Princess dolls business to Hasbro. Nichole Chung on microaggressions and the certainty that you are the only person who can make…

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“That racist thing where I touch your hair”: A links round-up

I could not be more excited about the new Lifetime show UnREAL. “Now I’m going to do that racist thing where I touch your hair.” Saeed Jones on being black in the book world. A moderate voice on trigger warnings for the classics. And another piece on trigger warnings generally, which makes the point that it’s not about whether to teach this or that troubling text, but how. Brit Bennett of the Paris Review on Addy Walker and black dolls in American culture. No joke, y’all, I reread the Addy books recently and they are fucking brutal. Gender differences in…

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